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Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.
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Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.
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What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me?
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Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself.
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Wealth of a man is the number of things which he loves and blesses which he is loved and blessed by.
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Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.
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The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent.
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Necessity dispenseth with decorum.
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The best lesson which we get from the tragedy of Karbala is that Husain and his companions were rigid believers in God. They illustrated that the numerical superiority does not count when it comes to the truth and the falsehood. The victory of Husain, despite his minority, marvels me!
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The greatest fault is to be conscious of none.
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It is no very good symptom, either of nations or individuals, that they deal much in vaticination. Happy men are full of the present, for its bounty suffices them and wise men also, for its duties engage them. Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what clearly lies at hand.
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History is a great dust heap.
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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Enjoying things which are pleasant that is not the evil it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
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Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
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Just in ratio as knowledge increases, faith diminishes.
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Professors of the Dismal Science, I perceive the length of your tether is now pretty well run and I must request you to talk a little lower in the future.
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The goal of yesterday will be our starting-point to-morrow.
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